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Fugitive Negro Indicted While Salisbury police late this afternoon were looking for Lafayette Burris, 20, Negro, who attacked a woman on a nearby farm with a section of iron pipe, the grand jury returned an indictment for assault with intent to kill against the fugitive.
The woman, Mrs. Earnest Toadvine, 42, said the Negro entered her home on the Snow Hill road, near Salisbury, and struck her on the head. He was frightened off by her screams. Mrs. Toadvine was alone at the time, her husband having gone to town on business. The Negro had been employed on the farm for several year*.
The grand jury was discharged at 5.45 o'clock this afternoon by Judge Robert F. Duer sitting with Judge Bailey. Those sitting in the investigation were: A. Percy White, foreman; Leonard M. Morris, C. Herbert Chatham, William T. Vincent, William C. Brew-ington, Roger Malone, Edmund Humphreys, Thomas R. Phillips, Lloyd Jones, Lee C. Messick, Benjamin J. Turner, William L. Smith, Leslie Truitt, Lemuel S. Harrington, William C. Gray, Josiah Johnson, Charles E. Parker, Harvey W. Marriner, J. Herman Downes, Irving A. Covington, Claude Russell, C. Jerome Brown, Sampson E. Truitt.
Two Detectives Examined At the morning session Graydon L. Ware and Walter Martin, Baltimore detectives, were among those examined. Ware and Martin conducted an investigation here at the request of Mr. Lane, who was instructed by Governor Ritchie to bring all the facilities of his office to bear on the case.
While residents of the town have evinced a keen interest in the progress of the investigation, little surprise was expressed at the result. Mr. Lane returned to Baltimore this afternoon with Mr. Anderson before the jury was discharged. Mr. Bailey said it would be unnecessary for the coroner's jury to meet, as the action of the grand jury superseded that of the other body. The coroner's jury was called shortly after the lynching, but adjourned subject to call after the formality of viewing the body.
The finding of the grand jury today completed an exhaustive investigation conducted by Mr. Lane and Mr. Bailey since December 5, wheni the Attorney-General entered the case at the request of Governor Ritchie. While the conduct of the inquiry was held secret, it was known that Mr. Lane made several visits to the Eastern Shore in connection with the case
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